“This is truly remarkable,” President Obama’s reelection campaign finance director, Rufus Gifford, tweeted Wednesday about Sanders’s first-day haul. There is growing skepticism among Democratic voters about wealthy benefactors’ influence on the political process, posing risks for candidates relying on large donations. The surest sign of Sanders’s standing in the Democratic field may have come from the president the Democratic candidates are seeking to defeat. On Tuesday, a Trump campaign spokeswoman issued a statement seeking to tether other candidates to him. In one notable change from 2016, Sanders has a largely new campaign team.

Source: Washington Post February 21, 2019 00:00 UTC